Quotes to inspire and reflect

Forward, forward let us range,

 

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled

 

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew

 

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,

 

Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales.

 

Airy, fairy Lilian.

 

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new:

 

She left the web, she left the loom,

 

Out flew the web and floated wide;

 

‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said

 

‘Tirra lirra,’ by the river

 

On either side the river lie

 

Willows whiten, aspens quiver,

 

There hath he lain for ages and will lie

 

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

 

Ring out the thousand wars of old,

 

One God, one law, one element,

 

There lives more faith in honest doubt,

 

God’s finger touched him, and he slept.

 

So many worlds, so much to do,

 

So careful of the type she seems,

 

But what am I?

 

Oh yet we trust that somehow good

 

Let knowledge grow from more to more,

 

The last red leaf is whirled away,

 

To the island-valley of Avilion;

 

That men may rise on stepping-stones

 

More things are wrought by prayer

 

The old order changeth, yielding place to new,

 

So all day long the noise of battle rolled

 

Authority forgets a dying king.

 

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life,

 

Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,

 

He clasps the crag with crookèd hands;

 

For though from out our bourne of time and place

 

Sunset and evening star,

 

‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’

 

Half a league, half a league,

 

For men may come and men may go,

 

But O for the touch of a vanished hand,

 

I come from haunts of coot and hern,

 

Break, break, break,

 

The Church’s one foundation

 

There are various forms of production: artillery, automobiles, lorries. You also produce ‘commodities’, ‘works’, ‘products’. Such things are highly necessary. Engineering things. For people’s souls. ‘Products’ are highly necessary too. ‘Products’ are very important for people’s souls. You are engineers of human souls.

 

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?

 

The two cultures and the scientific revolution.

 

The official world, the corridors of power.

 

Seal with a righteous kiss